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    Implementing sustainability in teaching: the role of sustainability leadership and transformational leadership in the context of higher education institutions

    Eustachio, João Henrique Paulino Pires ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6782-3904, Leal Filho, Walter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1241-5225, Salvia, Amanda Lange ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4549-7685, Guimarães, Yana Medeiros ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6196-2682, Brandli, Luciana L ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0763-7149, Trevisan, Laís Viera ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3673-6573, Barbir, Jelena ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9226-0680 and Caldana, Adriana Cristina Ferreira ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4857-1817 (2024) Implementing sustainability in teaching: the role of sustainability leadership and transformational leadership in the context of higher education institutions. Sustainable Development, 32 (5). pp. 5331-5347. ISSN 0968-0802

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    Abstract

    This paper aims to explore the mechanism by which sustainability leadership (SL) and transformational leadership (TL) contribute to implementing sustainability-related aspects and the adoption of the SDGs by the teaching staff and whether these relationships are mediated by the higher education institutions' (HEIs) level of social innovation tendency. The authors relied on a world survey containing questions developed according to the literature to achieve the results, receiving 603 answers from teaching staff in 102 developed and developing countries. To analyse the data, exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were deployed to check the instruments and the model's structure of factors, and structural equation modelling with hypotheses testing was adopted to understand the level of significance and the magnitude of the relationship between the constructs. The results indicate that SL has a significantly strong relationship with TL, social innovation tendency, and the adoption of sustainability aspects in teaching; however, it is not possible to support the existence of a significant relationship between TL and the adoption of sustainability aspects in teaching, and between social innovation tendency and the adoption of sustainability aspects in teaching. Theoretical and practical implications are explored.

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